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A Lurker's History of Paradox and the Paradox Community * by Stacy Rowley The Borland-to-Corel Windows Days: the People (the Product Add-ins) There has been somewhat of a revival of product add-ins. Vladimir Menkin offers ProView (an alternative project viewer) and ProDoc (documentation of forms, reports, libraries, and scripts) among others. Dennis Santoro offers a variety, including Security Guard, BubbleHelp, AutoReplicator (automate updating remote copies of Paradox), Auto Key, and Auto Archive. Rick Kelly and Al Breveleri also offer products. These people and others have web sites as can be found in ParadoxCommunity.com. The web sites of Lance Leonard and Dennis Santoro also contain useful Paradox tips and resources. Other than Mike Prestwood's update for Paradox 9 (mentioned earlier), there have been no new books. But then, there is little money made in writing a book, as many have discovered. There is a sound knowledge base in the developers in the Paradox newsgroup (so long as new users are pointed to it), and there are web sites like this one to augment the newsgroup. The Paradox Informant stopped publishing in 1996. But since radically new versions of Paradox are no longer the case, the newsgroup and web sites meet these needs well today. In 2001, the Paradox Community seems upbeat, cohesive, and enthusiastic. But then the Paradox Community has always had an unusually large percentage of people very passionate about working with Paradox because of what it enables them to do. * The author's intent was to chronicle most of the key events in the evolution of Paradox database software, and to recognize the individuals who have contributed significantly to the Paradox Community for more than a brief period. It is hoped that with this, along with background information and some anecdotes, the reader can gain a perspective and appreciation for our Paradox. The author's intent makes for a rather impossible task because it is subjective while trying also to be factual. Some may feel left out, some may actually wish to be omitted, and some may feel they don't deserve the recognition. It is also subject to my memory and my value opinions; I have tried to be as thorough and fair as possible. If you feel that I missed a key person, let me know. If you have a true anecdote that would be a valuable addition, also let me know. (StacyRowley@ParadoxCommunity.com). The same goes for events in history. I have bounced various aspects off quite a few people. In particular, I wish to thank Liz Woodhouse for encouraging this effort and offering many constructive thoughts, and Brian Bushay, Steve Caple, Steve Green, Lance Leonard, John Moore and Dan Ehrmann for responding to numerous emails. Thanks also go to Mitch Koulouris for permitting the scanning of some pictures from the Paradox Informant. Discussion of this article |
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